Random thoughts...

[Sock Monkey]

Last night, the wife and I had a pretty great time attending "An Evening with Albert Brooks" in nearby Santa Barbara, California. I've always been a fan of Brooks so when I happened to stumble across an ad for the show one day while browsing online, I was pretty excited. But then I saw that it was being hosted by Kevin Pollack, who is one of my favorite actors/comedians, and this was like a little double whammy of "heck, yeah!" The show was just two hours of Pollack and Brooks on stage, in this little theater of just over 600 seats (which was packed), talking about Brooks's career and, man, was it entertaining. Both men are funny, but Brooks is also a heck of a storyteller and his honesty in detailing the challenges of making his early films and his recounting some of his encounters with Robert DeNiro and Nancy Reagan were hysterical. I've been putting off watching the recent documentary about him, but now I feel the urge to watch it along with getting through some of his backlog of films I haven't had a chance to catch yet.

[Ben Staad]

That sounds like an amazing time, SK.

[RonClinton]

Does anyone happen to have the Summer 1997 issue of Deathrealm, apparently its final issue? If so, I would be greatly appreciative to get a scanned copy or photos of one of the articles in it. The cover looks like this:

DTHRLMSMMR1997.jpg

[Ben Staad]

Best of luck on your search, Mr. Ron. I hadn't heard of that magazine before. Some good names on the cover. David is still around, and maybe you've already reached out, but he is on social media.

https://davidniallwilson.com/contact/

[RonClinton]

Best of luck on your search, Mr. Ron. I hadn't heard of that magazine before. Some good names on the cover. David is still around, and maybe you've already reached out, but he is on social media.

https://davidniallwilson.com/contact/

I did drop a message to Stephen Mark Rainey, who I believe was the editor and publisher of Deathrealm, but haven’t heard back yet. Fingers crossed. Now that you mention it, maybe Wilson would still have a contributor copy on hand…hmm.

EDIT: I was able to connect with Rainey, and it looks like I'm now hopefully good to go.

[Ben Staad]

Woohoo!

I did drop a message to Stephen Mark Rainey, who I believe was the editor and publisher of Deathrealm, but haven’t heard back yet. Fingers crossed. Now that you mention it, maybe Wilson would still have a contributor copy on hand…hmm.

EDIT: I was able to connect with Rainey, and it looks like I'm now hopefully good to go.